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Fashion OnlineAudrey, Jackie, Grace: Fashion trifecta In an age when the
word is grossly overused, they remain, incontrovertibly,
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the
Revolutionpresents
Marie Antoinette as a hapless 14-year-old whose mother,
Empress Maria Theresa, warned her, "All eyes will be fixed
on you." In the end, as we all know, she miscalculated. "Yet
for the moment," Weber writes, "the larger society she
sought out proved an avid market for her iconoclastic,
elegant image. For the staunchest devotees of the modes she
launched, neither printed matter nor in-store gossip could
compare with a direct sighting of Marie Antoinette."
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Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution presents
Marie Antoinette as a hapless 14-year-old whose mother,
Empress Maria Theresa, warned her, "All eyes will be fixed on
you."
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